April – 22 June 2014 at The New Art Gallery, Walsall Richard Long is considered one of the leading exponents of British Land Art. He was among a generation of artists who wanted to extend ... human characteristics with the natural forces and patterns of the world.’ Spring Circle, 1992 compliments the Richard Long: Prints 1970-2013 exhibition, the first comprehensive survey of prints by the artist ... 22654400info@thenewartgallerywalsall.org.ukwww.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk Opening hours Tuesday - Saturday from 10am to 5pm Sunday from 12pm to 4pmRelated images Richard Long, Mud Hand Print. 1984, Imprint of the artist’s right hand with River Avon mud (monotype) on white

Roberts Gallery in London, United Kingdom For his first solo exhibition at the Alan Cristea Gallery, Richard Long is presenting a new series of monumental carborundum relief prints. Not only do they mark the first ... Long’s home, where the artist conceived, developed and proofed the prints for the exhibition. For Richard Long, working at Spike Island was comparable to a musician going into a recording studio ... songs or music ‘he just likes’. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. Richard Long was born in Bristol in 1945. He achieved prominence in 1967 with his seminal work A Line

like water, the tides, the mud. All that cosmic energy is there in my work." Richard Long The Tide is High, an exhibition of new works by Richard Long, will be unveiled at Alan Cristea ... steep mud banks of the River Avon have provided both the source material and inspiration for Richard Long's work since his youth. The Tide is High features a new series of prints based ... subject. A retrospec­tive of his prints toured Germany and the UK in 2013 - 14. This is Richard Long's second solo exhibition and second print project with the Alan Cristea Gallery. a Richard Long. Courtesy

York, United States Sperone Westwater is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Richard Long, “Crescent to Cross,” the artist’s fifteenth solo show with the gallery since his first in 1978. Over ... passage through the landscape—in the artist’s words, on “real stones, real time, real actions.” Richard Long was born in Bristol, England, where he lives and works. He graduated from St. Martin's School ... Empire in 2013. On view concurrently at the Arnolfini in Bristol is the major solo show "Richard Long: TIME AND SPACE," closing 15 November. An opening reception for the artist will be held on Friday

Kingdom A large new floor-based stone circle, Flint Wheel (2018) is at the centre of Richard Long’s latest exhibition in London, 'Circle to Circle, which is loosely themed around different uses ... first artist’s book with Lisson Gallery in 1971. For Art Basel’s Unlimited section in June, Long will be installing a major work, Ivory Granite Line (2016), constructed from nine metres of granite stone ... presentation of a mud-panel triptych at the Armory fair in New York in March. Richard Long. Courtesy of Lisson Gallery

States Inspired by a deep connection to his native English Spike Island and the surrounding nature, Richard Long (born 1945) has created a powerful body of work entitled The Spike Island Tapes. Long, an artist ... running horizontally. These works are of exceedingly small editions, ranging from two to four impressions of each. Long has exhibited throughout the globe at the following institutions: The Museum of Modern Art (Oxford), The National ... Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston), Sao Paulo Biennal (Brazil), and The Guggenheim (New York), and others. Richard Long. The Spike Island Tapes, exhibition view. Courtesy of Jonathan Novak Contemporary

present Mothers, an exhibition that brings together works by Not Vital (Sent, Switzerland, 1948) and Richard Long (Bristol, UK, 1945). The show, which opens to the public on September 10, celebrates the tenth anniversary ... gallery in Rio and will feature new works by both artists, including site-specific works by Richard Long created especially for the occasion. Despite their different artistic and personal paths, Long and Vital share ... title chosen by the artists for the exhibition is a tribute to their mothers. Richard Long's mother, Frances, from Bristol, England, was born in Rio de Janeiro. Long, in turn, established a relationship

prazer de apresentar Mães, exposição que reúne trabalhos de Not Vital (Sent, Suíça, 1948) e Richard Long (Bristol, Reino Unido, 1945). A mostra, que abre ao público no dia 10 de setembro, celebra ... galeria e contará com trabalhos inéditos de ambos os artistas, incluindo trabalhos site specific de Richard Long criados especialmente para a ocasião. Mesmo com trajetórias artísticas e pessoais distintas, Long e Vital compartilham ... escolhido pelos artistas para a exposição é uma homenagem às mães de ambos. A mãe de Richard Long, Frances, oriunda de Bristol, na Inglaterra, nasceu no Rio de Janeiro. Long, por sua vez, estabeleceu

important artists working in the UK in that period including Tony Cragg, Antony Gormley, Hamish Fulton, Richard Long, Anthony McCall and David Nash. Curated by Nicholas Alfrey, (University of Nottingham) Joy Sleeman, (Slade School ... years; Hanging Trees, Outclosure and Shadow Stone Fold by Andy Goldsworthy; Red Slate Line by Richard Long; and several works by David Nash including growing work 49 Square and charred sculpture Black Mound, two permanent ... Hamish Fulton, Andy Goldsworthy, Antony Gormley, Susan Hiller, John Hilliard, Derek Jarman, David Lamelas, John Latham, Richard Long, Roelof Louw, Anthony McCall, Bruce McLean, Garry Fabian Miller, David Nash, Roger Palmer and David Tremlett

form. The exhibition includes work by Peter Alexander, Carl Andre, Josh Callaghan, Richard Deacon, Toshikatsu Endo, Richard Long, Nathan Mabry, John McCracken, Richard Nonas, Yoko Ono, Adrian Paules, Fabrice Samyn, Peter Shelton, and John Zane ... represented. Raw materials – stone, burned wood, bronze, steel – maintain their original integrity in the works of Richard Long, Toshikatsu Endo, Richard Nonas and John Zane Zappas. While sculptures by Peter Shelton, Richard Deacon and John

continually evolved and expanded, particularly through long-term relationships with artists such as Bruce Nauman, Richard Long, Wolfgang Laib and Susan Rothenberg. Artists featured in Sperone Westwater: 50 years are Carl Andre, Bertozzi & Casoni ... Jitish Kallat, On Kawara, Guillermo Kuitca, Wolfgang Laib, Helmut Lang, Charles LeDray, Sol LeWitt, Amy Lincoln, Richard Long, Emil Lukas, David Lynch, Heinz Mack, Brice Marden, Mario Merz, Katy Moran, Malcolm Morley, Bruce Nauman, Mimmo ... Piene, Alexis Rockman, Gamalíel Rodriguez, Susan Rothenberg, Robert Ryman, Peter Sacks, Peter Schlesinger, Julian Schnabel, Kyungmi Shin, Richard Tuttle, Cy Twombly, Kevin Umaña, Andy Warhol, William Wegman. The gallery began and continues with Angela Westwater

Sperone Westwater Gallery in New York, United States Sperone Westwater is pleased to announce Richard Long’s 17th exhibition with the gallery since his first in 1976. A new, monumental mud work, Full moon ... miles in its orbit” Long situates his walks within our planet’s vast and continuous celestial movements. Long’s sculptural interventions, such as a line of stones placed on a path in Pacific crest trail ... exhibition: one made of slate shingles and the other from flint from Norfolk, England. Richard Long, Full moon, exhibition view. Courtesy of Sperone Westwater

sulle piante. Nash in quegli anni aveva osservato e avuto la lezione del lavoro artistico di Richard Long, il suo 'camminare' nei luoghi per comporre ordinatamente alcuni elementi che li caratterizzavano e successivamente fotografarli ... recare altrove il risultato delle sue esperienze di filosofo-paesaggista. Ma Nash, a differenza di Long, ha pensato che bisognasse anche vivere stabilmente nei luoghi dove aveva piantato alberi per intervenire continuamente nel loro processo ... coltivazione dell'attività e del sentimento spirituale che annette ad essa. Nash, come Andy Goldsworthy, dopo Richard Long, ha dato un grande impulso a una nozione d'arte realizzata sul territorio, tuttavia l'impegno

years, including David Bomberg, Edward Burra, Prunella Clough, Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Peter Lanyon, Richard Long, Rachel Lowe, George Shaw and Clare Woods, this exhibition looks at the way modern artists have been ... earliest works in the Arts Council Collection. In other media, the exhibition includes Fourteen Stones by Richard Long, Rachel Lowe’s video A Letter to an Unknown Person, No.5 and photography by Keith Arnatt

Oval – each exhibiting work by artists including Hiroshi Sugimoto to Basquiat, Gerhard Richter, Shinro Ohtake, Richard Long, and David Hockney. Each wing offers different views and varying design but all in striking natural settings with ... windows facing the sea. There is a different artist’s work in each room, with a Richard Long untitled painting on the wall of our room. The bathroom had a shower and long bathtub, with

York, United States James Cohan is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Nahum Tevet, Richard Long, and Alan Saret. The works in the exhibition are united by their physicality and adept spatial integration ... intentional confusion of sightlines produce disorientation, impeding attempts to assimilate the works into easily digestible statements. Richard Long (b. 1945 Bristol, England) is celebrated for his landscape interventions and for the introduction of unorthodox, natural

mark. Artists included are Francesco Clemente, Todd Gray, Hayv Kahraman, Jitish Kallat, Byron Kim, Guillermo Kuitca, Richard Long, David Lynch, Christopher Myers, Bruce Nauman, Peter Sacks, Kyungmi Shin, Kevin Umaña and William Wegman ... exhibition shifts focus to the self in relation to landscape and the passage of time. Richard Long’s Houston circle, originally created for a 1996 exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston from local

these per se, of course; I personally just find them slightly worthy and dull). Richard Long’s ‘A Line Made by Walking’ (1967) redefined sculpture as a gesture, a mark upon the earth.11 His walks ... Bourgeois connects emotional states to architectural form—abstract yet deeply autobiographical. These artists find language in space: Long through the landscape, Bourgeois through the psychic body. In both, sculpture transcends objecthood and enters the terrain ... plastics, collage. 10 Yayoi Kusama, ‘Phalli’s Field’, 1965, stuffed fabric forms in mirrored room. 11 Richard Long, ‘A Line Made by Walking’, 1967, photograph and text. 12 Louise Bourgeois, ‘Maman’, 1999, bronze, stainless steel

using the hands as a departure point. Talk to the Hand, with Luisa Caldwell, Carlo Ferraris, Richard Long, Marcello Maloberti, Richard Serra, Haim Steinbach, Wang Jingyu, Alona Weiss, and Martin Wong, is on view through

them to swallow all of their shame and accept this bastardization. The Absurd had been established there long before miserable independence had been achieved. From Camus to Beckett, it is noteworthy that the writers ... participated in artistic life with their work, names such as Eugène Leroy, Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Richard Long, Gilbert and George, Per Kirkeby, Dieter Roth, Richard Hamilton, Marina Abramović, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Franz West, Michel

long list. It is worth mentioning the notable exceptions here also that prove the rule, Richard Long and James Turrell stand out in every respect in terms of output and endurance. I guess what

group show on the gallery’s third floor featuring Kadar Brock, Helmut Lang, Daniel Lefcourt, Richard Long, Heinz Mack, Sam Moyer, Anthony Pearson, Otto Piene, Tom Sachs, Sarah Sieradzki, and Richard Tuttle. This exhibition situates

exhibition posters created on a computer and his own text. At the time, Holzwarth already had a long history of close collaborations with artists including Barbara Bloom, Bogomir Ecker, Roni Horn, Raimund Kummer, Ed Ruscha ... Kiki Smith, and as an art director for the publisher Scalo, where he created titles with Richard Billingham (Ray’s a Laugh), Larry Clark (Perfect Childhood), Robert Frank (Moving Out), Jim Goldberg (Raised by Wolves ... artists of conceptual art, minimalism and land art, such as Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Brice Marden, Gordon Matta-Clark, On Kawara, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Ryman, Cy Twombly and Lawrence Weiner

artists including Carl Andre, Huma Bhabha, Will Boone, Bernard Buffet, Alexander Calder, Elaine Cameron-Weir, Richard Long, Maurizio Cattelan, Joseph Cornell, Walter Dahn, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Jimmie Durham, Llyn Foulkes, David Hammons, Damien Hirst

imagine that the role of landscape in art has not previously been challenged. Seminal artists such as Long, Ackling, and Fulton were a generational phenomenon who were at the cutting edge of British landscape-based ... 1980s. Their challenge to established convention at the time was seen as equally grave and subversive. Richard Long, with his elemental walks across moors, deserts, and mountains, resisted the idea of landscape as the disconnected

Konrad Klapheck, Kiki Kogelnik, Joseph Kosuth, Gary Kuehn, John Lennon, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Ronald Nameth, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Jules Olitski, Yoko Ono, Dennis ... Germaine Richier, Bridget Riley, Jean-Paul Riopelle, James Rosenquist, Teresa Rudowicz, Carolee Schneemann, Karl Schwanzer, George Segal, Richard Serra, Miriam Shapiro, Robert Smithson, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Keith Sonnier, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Paul Thek, Walasse Ting, Günther

Konrad Klapheck, Kiki Kogelnik, Joseph Kosuth, Gary Kuehn, John Lennon, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Ronald Nameth, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Jules Olitski, Yoko Ono, Dennis ... Germaine Richier, Bridget Riley, Jean-Paul Riopelle, James Rosenquist, Teresa Rudowicz, Carolee Schneemann, Karl Schwanzer, George Segal, Richard Serra, Miriam Shapiro, Robert Smithson, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Keith Sonnier, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Paul Thek, Walasse Ting, Günther

steel intervention reflects and refracts visitors and its Brutalist architectural surroundings, Ai Weiwei’s 50-metre long wallpaper installation, Odyssey (2016) represents the global, ancient and continuing movement of peoples, touching on themes from ... World II (1998) floats above head height, receding seemingly impossibly into space and time – and Richard Deacon, who presents his own takes on materiality and multidimensionality through a twisted plywood Möbius-like form, Turning ... admission of the wreckage left behind by this renewable energy source. Among the new commissions is Richard Long’s 60-metre long mud work, made directly on the wall using his hands dipped in slip

Julius Koller, Joseph Kosuth, Kurt Kren, Gary Kuehn, John Lennon, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Jackson Mac Low, George Maciunas, Mario Merz, Larry Miller, Joan Mitchell, Charlotte Moorman, Robert Morris ... Saint Phalle, Takako Saito, Antonio Saura, Ernst Schmidt jr., Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Karl Schwanzer, George Segal, Richard Serra, Miriam Shapiro, Mieko Shiomi, Berty Skuber, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Daniel Spoerri, Herbert Stumpfl, Christof Šubik

Julius Koller, Joseph Kosuth, Kurt Kren, Gary Kuehn, John Lennon, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Jackson Mac Low, George Maciunas, Mario Merz, Larry Miller, Joan Mitchell, Charlotte Moorman, Robert Morris ... Saint Phalle, Takako Saito, Antonio Saura, Ernst Schmidt jr., Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Karl Schwanzer, George Segal, Richard Serra, Miriam Shapiro, Mieko Shiomi, Berty Skuber, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Daniel Spoerri, Herbert Stumpfl, Christof Šubik

lived presence within the vast Icelandic wilderness. Her work utilizes materials such as used clothing, kimono obis, long ribbons, and textiles sourced from second-hand fabric shops. For Päiväläinen, used clothing is central ... within the broader tradition of land art. Like early land artists such as Robert Smithson or Richard Long, she engages directly with the landscape. Yet her approach is subtle and intimate rather than monumental. Instead

physical site and as a condition of being—a psychological interior marked by qualities of belonging, longing, or displacement. This exhibition includes artworks by: Vito Acconci (U.S., 1940 ‑ 2017), Lewis Baltz ... born Vietnam 1960), Annette Lemieux (U.S., born 1957), Sharon Lockhart (U.S., born 1964), Richard Long (England, born 1945), Euan Macdonald (U.S., born Scotland 1965), Kris Martin (Belgium, born 1972), Gordon Matta-Clark

modern attitude to time and the lack of willingness to engage in self-­‐analysis over a long period. Originating from the Val Gardena in Northern Italy, Demetz has revived the tradition of wood-­‐carving that ... materials has led to comparison with other modern and contemporary artists such as Joseph Beuys, Richard Long and Giuseppe Penone who have also found inspiration in the natural world. The unique work of Korean artist

Bo.Lee Gallery in London, United Kingdom Nature has long been the inspiration for artists, from cave painting to land art, our natural surroundings and the forms, patterns and materials have shaped the way we enter ... nature. Artists: Ambrosine Allen | Tessa Farmer | Paul Fry | Susan Gunn | Bea Haines | Patrick Haines | Philippa Lawrence | Richard Long | David Mach | Suzanne Moxhay | Peter Randall-Page | Cornelia Parker | Ione Rucquoi. Nature's Alchemy. Courtesy of bo.lee

nature of the medium and contributing to a new understanding of the practice. His fourteen-foot long, steel sculpture, metal 2 ’64 (1964), constructed during his time at St Martin's, will be exhibited ... Schum's seminal television broadcast exhibition Land Art (1969), which featured films by renowned Land Artists Richard Long, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, Marinus Boezem, Jan Dibbets, Walter De Maria and Michael Heizer. Fifty years after

nice cup of warm saké. What makes the FMOCA a unique venue for art and a long-lasting appreciation of its sculptural garden is that due to the ancient architectural structure of the theatre ... Yellow Trees (1992) among others. Other artworks by various artists, such as Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Richard Long, Tatsuo Miyajima and Oscar Oiwa can also be viewed. At once, the sensation

structure, and one another. In recent years, a reconsideration of values has led many artists toward the long-established creative community of Upstate New York. The Campus embraces this environment of spirited exchange with ... Sanya Kantarovsky, Barbara Kasten, Annette Kelm, Caitlin Keogh, Jutta Koether, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Gabriel Kuri, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Long, Eugene Macki, Goshka Macuga, Chris Martin, Josiah McElheny, Marta Minujín, Dianna Molzan, Rebecca Morris, Lee Mullican, Oscar

long and winding road by Adriana Dredge We must travel in the direction of our fear. (John Berryman) French artist Anne-Flore Cabanis takes a pen, designates a starting point and starts her journey ... sculptures. I also admire Marina Abramovic for her total commitment to her art, Richard Serra and Richard Long because of the very strong feeling of nature they succeed in giving the public. What

geopolitics and faux scandal. Scary, but perhaps the most sobering part of this exchange was an apparent longing of the assembled ex-MI5/RUSI and other intelligence bod participants, for the predictability and comparative certainty ... could not easily be owned or bought. For example, one could not own a walk by Richard Long, or a ‘happening’ by Yoko Ono. This was a calculated moral position taken against what was perceived

countries. The act of walking remains central to his practice and unlike his contemporary Richard Long, Fulton does not alter the form of the landscape he walks in, but records the experience through photographs

Britain features contemporary paintings and photographs by Conrad Atkinson, Keith Arnatt, Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane, Richard Long, David Nash, Laura Oldfield Ford, Jem Southam and others. Though more modern responses to recording location

locations she works with. Warboys’ art-jetsam sits (or floats) somewhere between Jackson Pollock, Richard Long and William Burroughs. The works are conceptually elegant and epitomise a veracity of process that is difficult to dispute

final da década de 1980. Entre os artistas estão Pino Pascali, ligado à Arte Povera; Richard Long, um dos mais importantes artistas ingleses da segunda metade do século XX; e Lothar Baumgarten, artista alemão

porterà a contemplare e a immergersi in opere di artisti come William Morris, Sol Lewitt, Richard Long in un vero spettacolo di arte ambientale. Come dichiara il sito della collezione Gori: “Il risultato

breitere Tradition der Land Art einordnen. Wie frühe Vertreter dieser Bewegung, etwa Robert Smithson oder Richard Long, arbeitet sie direkt mit der Landschaft. Ihr Ansatz ist jedoch eher subtiler und intimer als monumental. Anstelle großformatiger

Rainer, Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter, Peter Blake, Christo, Günter Brus, Mimmo Jodice, Gilberto Zorio, Giulio Paolini, Richard Long, Candida Höfer, Giuseppe Penone, Fischli e Weiss e Shirin Neshat, solo per citarne alcuni. Specifiche riflessioni

Park where his work is permanently installed amongst other luminaries such as: James Turell, Kishio Suga, Richard Long and David Nash. Bassett's work has been featured in numerous publications including Christie’s Magazine

Canova. Ci sono anche le impronte di piedi nel fango del fiume su un cartone di Richard Long, dell’87, che denunciano una presenza ora assente, un passaggio fugace di un tempo lontano

mundane substances. Out of the ordinary includes works by Tara Donovan, Anya Gallaccio, Mona Hatoum, Richard Long, Umar Rashid, Sherrill Roland, Ed Ruscha, and Zarina, among others. Out of the ordinary: uncommon materials, marks

Hamish Fulton, Mario Giacomelli, Piero Gilardi, Andy Goldsworthy, Michael Heizer (photographs by Gianfranco Gorgoni), Michelangelo Pistoletto, Richard Long, Ana Mendieta, David Nash, Ernesto Neto, Giuseppe Penone, Alessandro Piangiamore, Arcangelo Sassolino, Robert Smithson, (photographs by Gianfranco

Gilliam, Robert Irwin (whose work defined the Light and Space movement), Lygia Pape, and Land artist Richard Long. The second half demonstrates the ways that contemporary artists such as Paul Chan, Olafur Eliasson, Spencer Finch

biológicas e geológicas, entre a multiplicidade de seres e espaços que ocupam a terra. Se para Richard Long toda a ação na natureza deveria ser mínima e transitória, para os artistas contemporâneos a arte

Alighiero Boetti, Daniel Buren, Maurizio Cattelan, Nicola De Maria, Lara Favaretto, Bertrand Lavier, James Lee Byars, Richard Long, Sol Lewitt, Fabio Mauri, Reinhard Mucha, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Niele Toroni, Adrian Villar Rojas

frammenti di artisti quali Burri, Fontana, Gilardi, Mondino, Penone, Paolini, Beuys, Buren, Tony Cragg, Richard Long, etc. visibili solamente al microscopio durante i Cabinets de regard itineranti in Italia e all’estero (www.microcollection.it). La collaborazione

Julian Charrière, Agnes Denes, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Nancy Graves, Jan Hostettler, Richard Long, Claes Oldenburg, Monika Sosnowska, Liam Young. Eine Ausstellung der Bundeskunsthalle und der UNCCD-G20 Global Land Initiative anlässlich

climate and latitude: a system of traces that map the intimacies of location. A contemporary of Richard Long and Hamish Fulton, with whom he studied at Saint Martin’s School of Art in the late

Georg Baselitz, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Tony Cragg, Peter Doig, David Hockney, Annika Kahrs, Mike Kelley, Maria Lassnig, Richard Long, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Olaf Metzel, Sigmar Polke, Neo Rauch, Gerhard Richter, Pia Stadtbäumer, Cy Twombly, Stephan von Huene

fait artistique ne saurait être cantonné à un travail d’atelier. Avec son ami Richard Long, il décide alors, au début de ces années, de puiser dans de longues marches la matière propice

questões que o filósofo nos deixou. Também me fizeram pensar nas experiências de artistas como Richard Long, Donald Judd, Michael Heizer, cujas obras aconteciam no espaço e dele se constituíam, das suas rugosidades, materiais, idiossincrasias

Friedrich’s The Sea of Ice (1824) and early land art projects by Michael Heizer and Richard Long. Their flat black surfaces are embedded here and there with the remnants of common street fixtures